I cannot give you names of people you should consult, but I think it would be very wise to try a pilot study in one municipality, one region, or one province of the country, and to try to address some of those issues you talked about earlier, issues of privacy. It's not just federal privacy laws; it's provincial privacy laws, child protection laws, and a whole bunch of other things.
Once more, I disagree slightly with Mr. Perrin, although I agree generally with his overall position. Yes, if you want to do a good job of it, you do need personalized data. Why? Because if you can't track those cases, you don't know what you are counting. That is the opinion of the expert group assembled by the European Union, which basically said that you do need personalized data that you can track and relate to. Otherwise you have a bunch of people counting the same thing several times. That creates huge difficulties.
I would say it's not so much that you need to talk to one person or another. I think by now you have a fairly good sense of what the challenges would be. You really need or the government needs to try to experiment with one serious study in one province or one part of the country. There are parts of the country where that would be possible. Mr. Perrin mentioned a couple. Certainly in British Columbia there has been very intense collaboration between NGOs and the police for three or four years now, and there are all kinds of other parts.
I would not agree that this is an RCMP issue. This is not about the national police. It's a Criminal Code offence. In the Criminal Code, the administration of justice and policing is a provincial responsibility. When you get to this, you have to engage the provinces, municipal police forces, and provincial police forces, because the idea that you are going to stop those traffickers at the border is really a non-starter. That's not where you catch them; it's afterwards, when they start exploiting women and children.